Chapter 353: Victory

Ye Mu had originally felt a bit guilty for causing a farce and beating people up, but upon hearing Ye Yaodong's reminder, she instantly felt righteous again.

She stood with her hands on her hips, spitting as she spoke: "Bullshit! You also stole most of my longan, and you stole my seabird eggs!"

"No! My son wouldn't steal things! You old hag, don't frame us! Hurry up and pay money..."

"Who in the whole village doesn't know his hands and feet aren't clean?"

"Your hands and feet aren't clean! Your whole family's hands and feet aren't clean! We just picked up a piece of wood, where did we steal? It was you who didn't put it away properly and threw it everywhere!"

Seeing this family still quibbling like a dead pig unafraid of boiling water, Ye Mu simply went to search herself. To her surprise, she found three seabird eggs in an unlocked cabinet.

This made her so angry she slapped her thigh. "Look, look! Still daring to quibble! I've found the evidence! Even stealing my seabird eggs! I said most of the things in the house were gone; it turns out you took them all! You thousand-knife-cuts, damn it..."

Xu Mu immediately stopped lying on the ground, stood up, and snatched the eggs from her hand. "These are my family's eggs! What right do you have to say they're yours? Did you write your name on them? You're blind!"

"Fuck your mother! These are clearly the seabird eggs my family picked up! I'd recognize them even if they turned to ash..."

"These are what we picked up from the seaside."

"Did you carve your names on them? Shameless! Stealing a few eggs, like you've never seen anything before! Why don't you go beg for food? The beggars outside have more face than you! At least they beg for food openly, unlike you, like rats in a sewer, only knowing how to do sneaky, shameful things!"

Xu Mu was so angry that her fingers trembled. The men in the family were beaten, and the women were scolded into a weaker position.

"What are you pointing at? If you have nothing to say, shut up! Your whole family is crooked from the root..."

At this moment, the two brothers Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua finally arrived late.

"Dad, Mom, Adong, is everything okay? Did you find the ambergris?"

"By the time you came back, the day lilies would have gone cold! This bunch of trash still won't admit they stole our things."

"Then what about the ambergris?"

Seeing the Xu family men bruised and swollen, sitting or lying on the ground, it meant their own family hadn't lost out. Since everything was fine, the two brothers were most concerned about that thing; it was a rare item.

"Ambergris my ass! Dongzi said what he picked up was just a piece of wood, so he threw it in the junk pile, and that's why it was stolen by this kid."

"Ah? No ambergris?"

"No ambergris, but they still stole my eggs and longan!" Ye Mu glared at Xu Mu again. "Hurry up and pay me money, or I'll beat you old hags too!"

"There's no justice! You frame people and beat them at their door, and then you want to extort money! You're the real hooligans! Hit me! Hit me! If you beat me to death, I'll have my son carry my coffin to your door..."

"Hmph, hmph, a person who doesn't even know how to lie down and die, can you even fit in a coffin? No money to pay? Then pay with goods! My bird eggs are missing ten, you give me ten chicken eggs back."

"I spit! There were only five bird eggs in total, and you want ten chicken eggs..."

"Fuck, just now you were still hard-mouthed, and now you've revealed the truth! And the longan, your son stole most of it, pay with chicken eggs too!" Ye Mu was instantly triumphant.

Ye Yaodong also rolled his eyes. This whole family was brainless; no wonder the son they gave birth to was also a straw bag. Hereditary!

"No longan! Where did longan come from? Don't talk nonsense and deliberately extort..."

"If you didn't take it home, then your son must have stolen and eaten it! I don't care! Anyway, my family lost things, and we are all honest people. We say what we say, unlike your family, a bunch of hooligans and thieves..."

Xiao Xiao, standing on the side, almost couldn't help but burst out laughing. Mother and son were indeed mother and son; even the things they said were the same.

Ye Mu searched their house for chicken eggs while talking. Country people all had the same habit: chicken eggs were put in baskets and hidden in cabinets, locked up to prevent the children in the house from stealing and eating them.

"Dongzi, this cabinet below is locked, help me pry it open."

"You can't pry it! Fuck, this is my house! Is there no justice? Are you all dead? Hurry up and help..."

Unfortunately, all the Xu family members were either lying down, restrained, or surrounded. Their relatives were not as capable as Ye Mu's siblings and had long since offended everyone. They were unpopular, so who would help them?

Even Xu Mu, who wanted to stop them, was held back by Ye Yaodong's eldest and second aunts, and the three were there cursing at each other.

Ye Yaodong took a kitchen knife and very smoothly chopped the cabinet door open.

Ye Mu didn't touch anything else, just took out the small basket of eggs inside. She glanced at it and knew roughly how many there were—about 20.

"Just this little bit? Forget it, a little is a little. It can't cover the loss, so I'll count it as my bad luck. I'm a reasonable person, I didn't touch anything else."

"Fuck your mother..."

Ye Yaodong glared. "Keep your mouth clean..."

Xu Mu's neck shrank, but it was only for a moment. She then said fiercely: "You stole my family's eggs..."

"Steal your mother! I'm taking this openly! Debts must be repaid; it's only natural! If you don't have money, you can only pay with goods. Did you think other people's things were so easy to take? Hmph~"

Ye Mu looked at the villagers watching the fun at the door. "Villagers, tell me, am I right to do this? Their family didn't teach their son well, stealing ten of my bird eggs and more than half a jin of my longan. Is it too much for me to take 20 of their chicken eggs as compensation?"

"Not too much..."

"It should be... it should be..."

"Right, stealing other people's things, you definitely have to pay..."

Everyone felt she was reasonable, and Ye Mu looked like a victorious rooster, her expression triumphant.

"Hear that? I've always done things in a way that doesn't let people gossip. Hmph~"

Ye Mu also put the two bird eggs she had just found into the basket.

"I spit! Where were there so many? You shameless old woman! Your whole family are robbers, dog-born, giving birth to a son without an asshole..."

"If you curse again, I'll slap you to death..."

Ye Mu rolled up her sleeves and was about to go up and beat her. At this moment, the secretary and the women's director also finished watching the fun—ah, spit, they arrived late—and spoke up to stop this farce.

"Alright, alright, let's end this today. Anyway, it was just a farce, and no one lost anything. It's good that it's cleared up."

"Ah? How is it that no one lost anything? They beat our family and took our chicken eggs..."

The women's director said: "That's because you stole from others first."

"It was Wang Lixiang talking nonsense! There were only five bird eggs in total, but she said ten! And what longan? There was nothing! You can't be so unreasonable and shield them..."

Chen Shuji said in a deep voice: "Maybe your son hid them himself. Alright, this isn't a glorious matter, so don't bring it up again. Making such a scene in the middle of the night, can't your family be a bit more settled? Everything has to involve you!"

"That basket of chicken eggs will be compensation for their family's loss. Without you, their things wouldn't have gone missing. Be more settled in the future; your family has too many issues."

Everyone has a very poor impression of the Xu family, and Chen Shuji was once even shouted at and driven away by them.

"Ah~ There's no justice! No justice! Heavens, you don't open your eyes! No one helps us, letting us be bullied! Bodhisattva~ Why didn't you bless our family? I've recited so many scriptures! Buddha~ Our lives are bitter..."

Seeing that no one was helping them, the old woman simply sat on the ground, wailing and slapping her thighs.

Everyone couldn't help but twitch their mouths, tacitly ignoring the old woman.

Ye Mu carried the basket of chicken eggs, rolled her eyes, and said to her siblings and nephews: "Alright, alright, justice has been served and compensation received. It's fine now. Let's all go back. It's completely dark, and you all have to work tomorrow. Hurry back!"

"Good, good, good. It's good that it's cleared up. Everyone go back."

"Going back, going back..."

The villagers blocking the door also cleared a path. People walking out of the house also saw the Li Laoer family, who had been beaten black and blue on the side.

"Hey, almost forgot about the culprits."

"I heard it was them who directed Xu Laifu to steal things~"

"Beat them all out! Our village doesn't welcome them."

"Right, right, right, beat them all out..."

The villagers used whatever was at hand—those with sticks took sticks, those without took brooms, and those with nothing used their bare fists. The Li Laoer family heard this and hurriedly scrambled away, while the villagers behind them beat and cursed them all the way out of the village entrance.

Ye Yaodong and his group heard the constant cursing and wailing from the house behind them, but they all acted as if they heard nothing.

Ye Fu thanked Ye Mu's siblings again. Having many relatives in the village is good, especially having many brothers. As the saying goes, brothers fight tigers, and father and son go into battle together.

Ye Mu said happily: "Didn't expect to be able to make up for the losses."

"It's just a pity. It would have been great if the ambergris were real," Ye Yaopeng said regretfully.

Mentioning this, Ye Mu couldn't help but feel annoyed. She slapped Ye Yaodong on the arm. "Why were you so fast-mouthed? They admitted themselves they stole our ambergris, why did you just tell the truth?"

"Mom, you're changing a bit fast. Didn't you just say earlier that we have to be honest, seek truth from facts..."

"Hey, weren't the villagers all there? We had to say it nicely for them to hear. If you don't take advantage when you can, you're a turtle's egg."

Ye Fu glared at her. "Don't think about seven or eight things. Wood is wood. If we said it was ambergris, could their family afford to pay? Would you really tear down their house? And if they really stole it, we should have been able to search it out. If we couldn't find it, everyone would definitely think we were thieves crying thief, and then it would be our family's turn to be unsettled."

"That's true too. Forget it, don't think about it. Ambergris isn't something an ordinary person can pick up. You'd need to have such good luck for a pie to fall from the sky."

"Even if it fell, it wouldn't hit your head. Hurry back, I'm starving."

"Dad, you all go back to eat first. I'm going to the pier. Today's cargo hasn't been weighed yet."

"Then go to the pier first."

"It's fine. My second brother-in-law is at the pier, the two of us can move things. It's so late, you all go back to eat first."

"Eldest, Second, has the cargo been weighed?" Ye Fu looked at his other two sons.

"No, we just lifted a few baskets off the boat when we heard about this, so we hurried over. We only left the wives to watch."

"Then you two help each other move things later. I'm going back and won't be going out again."

"Mm, you and Mom go back first." ===== CHAPTER 354 =====